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I suppose in the context of the article you're commenting on you're saying the bad people are the ones defending the women and children from being raped?

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"The use of drones in these areas causes more collateral damage among the civilian population than it truly neutralizes gangs."

Only 5% of the deaths seem to be collateral damage. There can be no freedom without order.

A permanent, non-negligible chance of becoming a collateral victim in an extrajudicial drone killing doesn't sound like order to me.

TFA mentions residents are very scared. They live in a war zone.

Edit: I get the argument that it was a war zone anyway and people are also afraid of the gangs. But that comes from the fallacy of seeing the drone strikes as the only option. There are better ways to create order than creating even more chaos and hope it hits the right people sometimes.

Haiti has been a shit show for like 200 years now. You don’t think they’ve tried every method they can think of to deal with the criminals? What are the better methods to deal with chaos that they have been ignoring?

> You don’t think they’ve tried every method

No, I don't. Their experimentation is constrained by many forces.

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